Envisioning Philadelphia
Subtitle: Edmund Bacon and the city of the future
By: edited by Scott Gabriel Knowles.
Contributors: Knowles, Scott Gabriel.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812220780
Subjects: Bacon, Edmund N; Bacon, Edmund N. -- Political and social views; Philadelphia City Planning Commission -- Biography; City planning -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 20th century; City planners -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Biography; City planning -- United States -- Case studies; Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Forecasting
Genres: Biography; Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philadelphia in the year 2009 / Edmund N. Bacon; title: Salesman of ideas : the life experiences that shaped Edmund Bacon / Gregory Heller; title: A utopian, a utopianist, or whatever the heck it is : Edmund Bacon and the complexity of the city / Guian McKee; title: Staying too long at the fair : Philadelphia planning and the debacle of '76 / Scott Gabriel Knowles; title: Philadelphia in the year 2059 / Harris Steinberg; title: Afterword / Eugenie Birch.